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Tuesday, May 1, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Copland's Artistry Weaves 'Tender Land'
By ZAHID IQBAL Kansan Reviewer
A perfectly ordinary story told by a perfectly extraordinary man, a simple-rich tapestry woven with the powerful music threads that are the monopoly of master musicians—Aaron Copland's 'The Tender Tune' and our we all know and have been a part of.
The all the world's a stage, and we the
patriots long come to compose and
what do we. A large agency.
"The Tender Land," set as it is in the rural mudwest, should strike responsive chords in the hearts of local audiences. But the band has been very gently, as they drive home from the opera, all aflow with the evening's music, that it was a dude from Brooklyn, New York, who
**TOLD IN THREE ACTS**, the story revolves around Laurie, whose world has been limited to her home and the lives she lives in. She is sweet chaste and pretty, loved by an over-protective grandfather (Grandpa Moss), and a稍加救护ed sister (Moss) and a稍加救护ed mother, Beth.
Laurie is graduating from high school. If her family has realized that she is also curried to one of the many curries curred to no one that her maturing spirit of individuality must find some expression or that the day may come when the confines of a world event may seem too restrictive to her.
With his psychological-counselling foresight limited to the management of cows and bulls, Grandpa Moss tells Lauren never to talk to strangers. He does not see that she is already yearning for the world outside.
Despite her concern for "doing right by grandfather," who has seen her through school, Laurie finds herself complaining that she didn't like "I had it own of my own."
TO TOUCH OFF the rebellion dormant in her, two strappers, Martin and Top, come wandering by the farm in search of work. They are Laurie's first tangible link with
the great wide world outside. She is happy when Grandpa Mess reluctantly hires them and asks them to join the revels of the evening—Laurie's graduation party.
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All the neighbors are there, to guzzle, dance, nuzzle and guzzle again: a graduation party is a once-a-life event for farm folk and everybody is having his little bit of fun. But For Laure, it turns out to be an even more special event.
Sometimes between dances, she finds that she has fallen in love with Martin. When she met him, she was so enamored.
Top and Martin are told they must leave at daybreak, and Laurie finds her newfound heaven shattered even before she has had time to savor it.
embrace later that evening, the party grinds to a halt. The merrymaking ceases.
WITH THE DESPERATION born of heady wife of youth and young passion, she martins Bell will elope with her. She will walk at daybreak, to follow where be leads.
But at daybreak the two friends are gone. Top has managed to persuade Martine that it was time for her to leave. He drags his friend off before the sun has risen. Heartbroken, Laurie decides that even though Mars has deserted her, she can no longer stay on the farm. She must
Saying goodly to her sister Beth and to her mother, both of whom are unable to change her mind, Laurie goes off to find herself.
Hurt beyond imagination, Ma Moss cannot even bring herself to say goodbye to her daughter. All she knows is that Laurie is gone. Bewildered, she claps her younger daughter close as the new day dawns and the curtain falls.
"THE TENDER LAND" can be a touching enough story in cold, gray print. The opera assails all the senses with overpowering reality. The University of Kansas Theatre and the School of Fine Arts made a truly commendable production.
The initial impact of the stage, as the
curtain first rises, is quite breathtaking. The depth of the set, its trueness to reality and the blue of the sky deserve unqualified praise.
The attention paid to every detail is almost incredible, down to the dust on a hurricane roof. Costumes are very well done, very authentic. Faustless makeup and lighting do a lot for the total effect, of particular, displays great perfectionism.
The choreography is imaginative and surprisingly well planned in the limited space available for some of the numbers. As for stage direction, if it had been anything short of perfect, the opera would have lost much of its impact.
Perhaps the orchestra, in its eagerness to be noticed, got carried away and came on loader than it had intended to. At any rate, part of the first act on opening night seemed a tribute to the musicians in the audience. But if Coblad could be gracious about this lapel, then so can we.
COPLAND'S RESTRAINT when he shook hands with Laurie (Rebecca Hayes), at the end of the performance, is to be admired. He should have hugged her. For she alone stood out from the rest of the singers, a rich soprano pealing out from an unbelievable diminutive frame. (There's still time to make amends, Mr. Copland.)
Larry D. Julian (Grandpa Moss), Ivan Thomas (Top), Desborah Layman (Ma Moss) and Patrick Neve (Marint) acquitted themselves well, but the orchestra would do
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The director of education placement, Herold Regier, said that a trend toward fewer education graduate placements in recent years had leveled out.
In 1968, he said, 75 per cent of the degree students found teaching positions by the following year. In 1972, 391 out of 782 were teaching positions. In 1973, teaching positions by the following year.
He said that this trend occurred because of the ever increasing number of education graduates and a steady decrease in the number of teaching vacancies. In recent years, he said, there has been a reduction in both the number of pupils enrolled in the elementary grades and in federally supported programs designed for these pupils.
FEWER SCHOOL, districts actively recruit teachers now. Regier said. In 1971, 74 districts conducted interviews at KU. In 1983, 414 districts actually sought personnel here.
Regier said that some graduates did not accept jobs because they did not wish to work in smaller communities. Many Regiers have offered opportunities of larger towns, he said.
Cotton said that most pharmacy graduates stayed in Kansas. After graduating, they must serve a short internship. Internships are not difficult to get, he said.
According to Hugh A. Cotton, associate dean of the School of Pharmacy, pharmacy graduates have always enjoyed good employment opportunities. Last year all pharmacy graduates found jobs when they graduated, he said.
Lucas said that the school tried to encourage what was best for each student. Many companies are actively seeking employees for them, Lucas said, so jobs are available.
"IN ARCHITECTURE and urban design," said associate Dean William Lucas, "graduates have two choices. They can be professionals or they can some kind of professional experience."
Lucas attributed good job opportunities in this field to the nature of architecture.
"There is no industry in the United States that does not utilize construction, and therefore architecture," Lucas said. "Regardless of the economic conditions, people must have some place to live, to work or go to school."
Employment opportunities for graduates from the design department of the School of Fine Arts have been improving since 1970, with Philip Henderson, associate professor of design.
In recent years, it has been difficult for graduates to find jobs, Henderson said. There have been fewer requests for people. There are also a large number toocate in all parts of the country, he said.
A LARGE NUMBER OF graduates go to Kansas City and Denver. Many also find jobs with Hallmark cards in Lawrence. Henderson said there were more jobs in larger urban areas but there were also onoortunities in Kansas.
Mildred Young, School of Business placement director, said that business graduates were doing better this year than they did last year. According to Young, 7 to 10 per cent more companies are seeking employees at KU this year than last year.
Last year 58 per cent of the business graduates registered with the placement service Of these, 38 per cent found jobs; 22 per cent went into military service; and 9 per cent went into military service.
Young said that prospective employers looked for exceptional students with a high grade averages and with extracurricular activities.
MOST BUSINESS GRADUATES find jobs in Kansas or the Kansas City area, Young said, although companies from New York,icago and the West Coast also recruit them.
Information supplied by Stephen Clark, assistant director of the KU Alumni Association, would seem to confirm that a trend for KU graduates to leave Kansas.
If Alumni Association members reflect the patterns of KU graduates in general, then Kansas is experiencing a steady increase of its most talented young people.
Alumni Association statistics show that three-fourths of all association members were originally from Kansas. However, over the last decade, many alumni members retained their Kansas residency
This means that more than half of the KU students who come to KU from schools in Kansas leave the state after they graduate, he said.
Fire Reported At Ellsworth
A fire attributed by University of Kansas Traffic and Security personnel to arson broke out in Ewells Hall Monday, causing about $75 damage.
Mark Sevier, Wichita sophomore, discovered a burning pile of papers at about 4:30 a.m. the report said. Sevier is a hall monitor.
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there is a distinct line of division between operatic aspirants and professional opera
actors; there are have bigger lungs and
bigger jugs.
On the whole the KU presentation of "The Tender Land!" can safely be said to be one of the best we ever will. Aaron Copland's music is straight and easy to relate to. It is also one that finds her lover gone, the anguished music is what conveys her pain to the audience.
That is Aaron Copland's forte—the creation of beautiful harmonies out of the music of Ravel.
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